Shizu considered it. And the 'I am not a bad slime' sealed the deal.
"Are an Otherworlder?"
"Yes. You too?"
"Mhm."
Unlike that terrorist Hinata, she doesn't discriminate against monsters. Especially otherwolders. Afterall, she herself is an almost majin. It's just that she hasn't fused with Ifrit due to their differences. The differences which meant Ifrit burning her friend and her per to death.
And well, it's probably the first time she has encountered an otherworlder who is a monster.
Afterall, reincarnations are pretty rare. Aside from Rimuru, I remember only that fraud, Mariabell being a reincarnator.
She hates this world. But if she can save the kids, she probably will not mind serving the 'not a bad slime' for 10 years and becoming a monster.
Afterall, she is not that terrorist Hinata.
Even if she goes back on her words and tries to get the spirits herself, she doesn't have the time. And she doesn't want the kids to suffer due to bad spirits like Ifrit as she did.
So, she will most likely agree.
"...Then I will trust you."
"Alright. I am beginning. Don't resist."
"Mhm."
So, I devoured Shizue Izawa.
'First extract only her Unique skill.'
[Processing... Done]
[Unique Skill Degenerate acquired]
'Now using Degenerate in conjunction of Devourer, separate her soul from her body.
[Processing...]
It can't even do things like handling two Unique Skills at once.
Fine. I will do it myself.
Now, separating the soul body of Shizu in a sub-section of my stomach.
It seems that her Unique Skill wasn't too deep in her Spiritual body, so the damage to her was minimial.
I used Degenerate to fuse back the remaining devoured Spiritual body from the part where Degenerate itself was. Thus, she is mostly fine now.
Then, I devoured her body and Ifrit completely.
[Elemental Magic Acquired]
[Spirit Magic Acquired]
[Elemental Summon: Ifrit acquired]
[Greater Elemental Fire spirit 'Ifrit' acquired]
[Flame Manipulation acquired]
[Flame Formation acquired]
[Body Double acquired]
[Ranger Barrier acquired]
[Possess acquired]
[Flame Attack Nullification acquired]
[Flame Elemental Magic acquired]
[Medium Fire Elemental Summoning Magic: Salamander acquired]
[Control Flame acquired]
[Explosive Flame acquired]
[Heat Wave acquired]
[Meele Attack Resistance acquired]
[Spacial Storage acquired]
[Healing Magic acquired]
[Recovery Magic acquired]
[High Heal Magic acquired]
Then I used Degenerate to create several new skills.
[Magic Sense and Devourer fused]
[Subskill Magic Devour(under Devourer) acquired]
[Magic Sense and Photosynthesis fused]
[Extra skill Photo-Magicule Synthesis acquired]
[Body Double and Seed fused]
[Extra skill Seed Double acquired]
[Body Double and Possess fused]
[Body Double Possession acquired]
[Sticky Thread and Steel Thread fused]
[Sticky Steel Thread acquired]
[Paralysis Breath and Poisonous Breath fused]
[Paralysing Poisonous Breath acquired]
Anyway, let's focus on Shizu now. I will create more skills later.
First, he created a Seed Double, and fused Shizu's skills to it with Degenerate.
Then I fused Shizu's Spiritual body into it.
All this took minimal amount of magicules.
At the very least, Sage keeps efficiency to the max.
Then I created a fruit to encase the Shizu seed and provide her nutrition of magicules to awaken. The fruit will absorb Magicules in the environment, and it wouldn't waste my own magicules.
'Sage, how much time it will take for her to awaken?'
[No data available]
'Of course!'
I sighed and looked at Shizu seed. It felt like something was missing. Will it really awaken?
Maybe naming will do the trick?
"Your name from now on is, Shizu."
"Shit!"
Around half of my magicules left me and entered the seed.
'...'
Rimuru is really a cheat, naming everyone so easily using Veldora!
Damn him!
He has plot armour, so he will be able to evolve Great Sage into Raphael even if he doesn't get Degenerate anyway.
That's why I am not going to worry about the future enemies of the world.
I started Devouring magicules at a much faster rate, with much wider range, thanks to Magicule Devour subskill of Devourer.
I also started using Photo-Magicule-Synthesis to convert sunlight into magicules. It wasn't really much effective though.
I desparately need a name, which will not prevent him from becoming a Demon Lord early on.
Maybe Milim can name him? Since Veldora isn't here, she is the best choice.
[Notice: Shizu is waking up]
Huh?
This fast?
Well... she did steal half of my magicules.
Maybe I should just devour her and be done with it?
Diablo's face crossed my mind.
...Nah. I can always recover magicules. I should first see how strong my new underling is.
The red slime fruit wiggled, and got absorbed completely into the Shizu seed as she fully became a slime.
"I am a slime... Eh... Maybe I can..."
Then she transformed into Shizu. But with eyes like when she would have gotten controlled by Ifrit. And red hair.
Strangely, her height didn't decrease at all. Maybe its because of her Spiritual body? Being like that?
'Sage, Give me a report on her.'
[Report
Name: Shizu
Species: Slime]
Oh yeah? I can see that. You really are useless.
[...]
"So, how do you feel?"
Shizu stared at her body. There were no scars. The scar that was on her face previously was now just like a tattoo.
I did devour the scars and fused the Spiritual body so that she wouldn't have scars, just tattoos near her eyes.
She can switch between slime and human form.
Her body is fully made of magicules. She is a proper Majin now instead of human.
Ifrit's skills at her fingertips without having to house him. Though she doesn't have its firepower, after getting named, she did steal around half of my magicules.
And I devoured the entirety of magicules in Veldora's cave.
Though she has lost her unique skill, her base is much stronger than when she was human.
The amount of magicules before even with Ifrit, and after, are not even comparable.
"So?"
"Thank you for doing this for me."
"Don't mind it. So, underling no. 1, let's go!"
I gave her back her mask, and let out my bat wings and started flying.
Shizu wore her mask, and also let out her bat wings.
She is now mainly a slime. Created from me. So she has gotten many of my abilities on top of her own.
As she flew above for the first time in her life, she couldn't help but feel like this world isn't that bad, if only on the surface. Probably.
"Ah. I don't really need you to come with me right now. Veldora has disappeared, disrupting the balance of this forest. Go investigate it.
And there is a goblin village nearby with wolves, apparently ruled by another slime.
Investigate it as well."
I don't want her to interrupt me in the way I am going to do things. She is a valuable powerhouse, but she is also pretty important to the story.
Most importantly, this way, suspicion over the disappearance of Eren will not be on me.
Frauds didn't have a single Unique Skill on them.